The following greetings were received by the Democratic Socialist Party to be read out to the M1 rallies across Australia. They have been slightly abridged.
Socialist Workers Party, Britain
We would like to extend May Day greetings to you from
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Early last month, family services minister Amanda Vanstone released a discussion paper calling for incentives for Australian women to have more children. The reason? At 1.75 births per woman of child-bearing age, Australia's fertility rate has fallen
BY JAMES CAULFIELD & STUART MUNCKTON
CANBERRA — They say that this city is the place where anything can happen and usually doesn't. But, for once, on May 1, it did happen: the global anti-capitalist revolt hit Canberra.
Three hundred people
BY KIM BULLIMORE
Well-known Aboriginal scholar and academic Marcia Langton made the headlines when she told the Australian Education Assembly that she was paying "protection money" by sending her daughter to a private school to ensure she escaped
BY SEAN HEALY
The mainstream media's coverage of the M1 protests outside the Australian Stock Exchange bore little resemblance to what really happened.
Just as at S11 in Melbourne, most who took part would have been left wandering whether there
"I think M1 is a big step forward in saying that the problems that we see in society are not just isolated ones but are all linked together and the heart of the problem is the corporate system, capitalism, and that is what we are fighting against
Nice Cossacks
"In fact, the modern use of horses, while deliberately visually intimidating, involves mainly sideways movement of the horses to jostle the crowd in the direction required." — the Sydney Morning Herald's chief right-wing crank
Undue Risk: secret state experiments on humansBy Jonathan MorenoRoutledge, 2001371 pages, $41 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
When Ebb Cade, a black 53-year-old cement worker, had a car accident in Tennessee in March 1945, he received more than he
BY TANIA JORQUERA
MELBOURNE Victoria University of Technology will play host to the
inaugural meeting of a newly formed refugee rights campaign. Refugee Action
Collective (West) will be based in Melbourne's western suburbs to meet
the
BY TIM STEWART
BRISBANE — At times, the scenes outside the stock exchange on 123 Eagle St on May 1 resembled one huge street party, with chanting, cheering, speech-making, dancing, and chalking up slogans on the pavement, all taking place in
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